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mircea_popescu: aww, you missed such a nice pile of anecdotes. so this guy, on the basis of a web forum populated by anglo dorks, and with the help of a "strategist" whose name escapes me atm but whose badly shaped cranium i still recall, were going to "revolutionize" and shit.
mircea_popescu: tucker max was a "finance expert" with scott lockinesque notions on bitcoin, last i looked,
mircea_popescu: "one of the public whores (free as in beer) that i'm sometimes pumping was working some chump and this bothered me maybe" ?
mircea_popescu: "I once felt a small pang of jealousy when one of my girlfriends was having a very public display of affection with a non-Mike person I didn’t know quite so well. But I get upset with/jealous of public displays of affection in general, even among people I don’t know, and it’s very hard for me to disentangle this feeling from jealousy and it could have just been my imagination." << or otherwise, could start by defining "
mircea_popescu: ugh lemons to fix america, i swear.
mircea_popescu: "They both go way out of their way to make the other happy, and although part of this is just that they’re both very nice people who go out of their way to make everybody happy, I think there’s got to be some love involved there too. They are engaged, working on the “getting married” thing, and have every intention of having lots of children and staying together for at least one lifetime." << california can't grow eno
mircea_popescu: "I have lived with them for seven months now and never once have I seen them get in a fight (I know there is way more to being a couple than not fighting but I’m trying to think of objective numerical evidence I can report here beyond “if you know them, you know what I mean”)." << it's a miserable fucking criteria wtf.
asciilifeform: pretty sure i've seen this term used in precisely this light.
asciilifeform: did i miss a line
asciilifeform: see, i dun need convincing, i have a pet installed, and in principle room for moar, but never found any moar.
asciilifeform: i can see this.
mircea_popescu: i've known even more folk who wouldn't deflower a girl, myself included. etc.
mircea_popescu: i've known plenty of folk who'd only do say married womenz. "she's married already".
asciilifeform: which is why i was initially puzzled at mircea_popescu's setup
mircea_popescu: lulz what the fuck am i reading.
mircea_popescu: "This is a post about applied luminosity in action: how I hacked myself to become polyamorous over (admittedly weak) natural monogamous inclinations. "
asciilifeform: could be -- i've heard it rumoured that his harem includes dudes
asciilifeform: this is where i say that i have absolutely nfi. was only conjecturing as to why the 'ring of popescuinity' has not melted his flesh from radiation damage.
mircea_popescu: you ever read bitter moon, say ? or i guess saw the movie, which was terrible, but i suppose still carries ?
asciilifeform: beyond this i cannot say, i do not have a mole in y's harem.
asciilifeform: anyway he successfully distilled the most hardcore folks from his original cult into a new thing, is moar funded than ever before, as far as i can tell, and is happily fellating thiel with renewed vigour.
mircea_popescu: rather low ever since i taught him how to write and he... failed to engage.
asciilifeform: i get briefings periodically.
asciilifeform: pet reads it, i can't be arsed
mircea_popescu: that's a new one, i didn't know any other cause is even possibru. wha happened ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i also missed this when it happened, but it imploded.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-07 18:21 gabriel_laddel: The lesswrong people I've run into out the bay area all tacked on idiocies like "if someone had a really good betting run, then you would pay them to make decisions for you regarding your own life"
asciilifeform: but i actually have nfi if that particular chumpatron is still rollin'. all i ever knew of it was from the mr mold film linked earlier.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-07#1478076 << hysteresis no longer taught in schools i take it |? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: uh i don't recall where specifically. tardstalk prolly. or reddit/twitter/whatever.
gabriel_laddel: Oh, and when I say "widget" I really mean gadget.
mircea_popescu: yes. i'd study them to get better.
asciilifeform: and if you think i will use scrolls that don't respond to mouse wheel, EVER, think again.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I use the CLX native backend and will be moving to framebuffer when it makes economic sense.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: one step at a time. I cut out all the "backends" and got the LoC count to 100,803 lines of CL.
trinque: how bout that, I'm lispfamous
asciilifeform: i have nfi whether they're still at it, and if so - how.
gabriel_laddel: Where should I / my kid attend school etc.
gabriel_laddel: The lesswrong people I've run into out the bay area all tacked on idiocies like "if someone had a really good betting run, then you would pay them to make decisions for you regarding your own life" ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: ^ this is what I've encountered people pushing irl
asciilifeform: trinque: last time i saw him on video, it was https://vimeo.com/9262193
a111: Logged on 2015-08-04 21:35 ascii_field: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/qgxfZ-I-nJ4/q6mKVUA7b1oJ << obligatory, the mega-flamefest that followed
mod6: but yeah, i getcha
mod6: i'll work something out for it. i see how it can be handy.
mod6: anyway, i can make it happen. just gotta ensure its fast, don't want any io to slow stuff down.
phf: but then i was thinking that i can periodically poll all the sources since_id=<last id for the source> and check things for consistency, etc.
mircea_popescu: i was talking to alf :) sure, lots of bots are loud.
mod6: i meant phf, but you too Mr. P. :]
mod6: but the rest I can do, and I won't be logging messages as this thing will drop pms.
asciilifeform: i meant, what is the use of this.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-07 00:56 mircea_popescu: "Hi team at Trilema How are you? I came across your excellent gaming site: http://trilema.com " << one of the pleasures of keeping a personal blog is that well... what is it ?
jurov: i posted the phuctor urls to his blog, and it's rather popular
asciilifeform: jurov: i don't. but it is not entirely unreasonable conjecture.
jurov: i'm not interested to keep coinbr running on such "fundament"
mircea_popescu: romania does have a happy tradition of ending up caught in conflicts between various idiots, i'd be much surprised if this changed.
mircea_popescu: i suppose "power standards for tmsr home" is yet another item we should eventually write up huh.
asciilifeform: dunno about ro, but where i live gas is piped in by the city
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah, i wasn't criticizing your thang.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-07 04:28 BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: May I instead suggest Honda EU3000iS
jurov: pete_dushenski: i don't believe these can sustain anywhere like 15min at 400W
trinque: They have always claimed that we Black cannot run an organization like AFRINIC (too complex for our small bird brain...) ... I have leaved [sic] through that during my 10 years as CEO both in Africa and globally. But the reality is that our own people let this kind of thing perpetuate. << muh sides
pete_dushenski: i'd guess about 15-20hrs of runtime on a 90L tank
BingoBoingo: No, I mean how much fuel to make the powah?
pete_dushenski: why don't you suggest i run mercedes inside house ?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: May I instead suggest Honda EU3000iS ☟︎
pete_dushenski: anyone else, i'd be reaming their incompetency, but mp has own dictionary that supersedes oxford, etc.
pete_dushenski: i think it's genetic
pete_dushenski: i'd fly it.
mod6: phf: ok thanks, i'll work on that.
phf: ben_vulpes: there's also http://www.lispworks.com/products/lw4mr.html but i haven't tried it yet
phf: they did a lot of work to ensure that things just work, so you put a couple of annotations in your lisp and can call those lisp functions from either android or ios. the two limitations is that you don't get an easy way to call from lisp back into native (at least that was the case when i tried it). the idea is that you write all your logic in lisp and use native exclusively as view. and second limitation is that built executable lacks compiler, s
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475432 << i've used it, and the wukix people are responsive to feature requests. i think the source is a fork of one of kyoto common lisp derivatives, probably akcl. fwiw it's the same lineage as gcl and ecl, so ascii's "why not compile ecl" is entirely reasonable ☝︎☟︎
phf: i'm surprised the bot is still operational, but i guess that's how it goes
phf: mod6: if you want i can spec it out for you, but that's the direction i want to take my some miniserver, that i would put on top of my znc logs
asciilifeform: ;;later tell pete_dushenski silicon is element 14, ~silicone~ is a type of synthetic rubber ! i can't even fathom how folks confuse the 2
mircea_popescu: teh excellent gaming site, i guess.
mircea_popescu: "Hi team at Trilema How are you? I came across your excellent gaming site: http://trilema.com " << one of the pleasures of keeping a personal blog is that well... what is it ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i guess it is at that.
trinque: mircea_popescu: I threw those in; I have to fix the tape between new deedbot and old (actual deed-related) code
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-06#1477797 << what i can't figure out is why they never talk. for srs, what does the schmuck have to lose now ? ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-06 22:03 mircea_popescu: in other news i finally replaced a rather loud psu. life's good!
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-06#1477796 << i installed an altogether silent one in february, but i can still hear the inductor sometimes. mega-disappointment. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i wonder if anyone remembers early 2015, "billion dollar market cap" ripple, millions "traded" a day and other flights of fancy.
shinohai: I was thinking more of hire 4-5 trannys from backpage, ship sex vids to aforementioned countries. Profit.
BingoBoingo: In other news, in spite of being broke the Illinois government is about to resurrect its program to reintroduce Aligator Gar. I am thrilled!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-06 15:54 jurov: Yes. just pgp sign the text "I agree."
mircea_popescu: in other news i finally replaced a rather loud psu. life's good! ☟︎
asciilifeform: i'ma off to anti-eat (exercises) brb.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-23 06:19 asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i was reading a circa-1958 issue of american magazine 'popular science', and guess what was in it - http://imgur.com/mZnf775
jurov: i dunno, polynomials are studied long enough so that some could be proved insolvable
asciilifeform: and yes appelbaum was a demolition job. but i have nfi what for.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-06 15:01 asciilifeform: 'Hey there! My name is Jacob Appelbaum. I'm pretty famous for stealing other people's research and putting my own name on it. I also spend a lot of my time pretending to be a badass hacker, but actually I can only barely code. I enjoy using my social capital, influence, and power in order to manipulate other people into getting what I want. From all that, it's pretty clear that I'm awesome! However, in severa
mircea_popescu: and there's absolutely no way that i can guarantee when drawing up the math of the cypher, that "all uses of symbol X will always be ambiguous in the space" or w/e dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: that's the bitch now innit. that's at least what i was longfaced about earlier, "in practical eavesdropping you don't EVER care about message integrity. if your algebraic cyrptosystem is porous to someone saying "bring me all messages that discuss ALEODOR" or whatever, and then he can discern something about them - say that ALL possible forms of one use it in the negative - you're still as fucked as a three year old in a pedo
mircea_popescu: but, that said : the principles to be built upon are exactly the "well, i can solve this any way you want" said the cracker to eve. hence, stuff like polynomial roots are very respectable idea.
asciilifeform: one simple example that i played with in the winter is 'graph clique problem'
mircea_popescu: jurov if we could i wish i knew it.
asciilifeform: i find it also very interesting that all aes-like ('boxes') cryptosystems are direct descendants of rotor machines. which were known to be pseudoscientific even when first built, as vernam existed ☟︎
asciilifeform: i still can't fully swallow how there is this entire field that isn't certain whether it exists or is simply smelling own farts.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, i dun have THAT.